Shakspeare Traduced

It is kOHuing in the pNWBt day to reftd "uiijc .il tlic opinión beid aboul the ttand ¦Ht df Sliak-pi-:re ,(s a dramatUl in pa-t ilions Appleton's Journal for Febnttrj reprint-, froffl All tbe ïear Roawfi au irticle oalled " Shakspeare'i Triduoen," whii'li hi ooflatioo of ad ren; erti mate.. Bén Johrison, in reference to Üm Statement tlial ' ' wliatMifVcr Shaktpeare penBed lic never blotted ooi a line," replies: " I wonld lic bd blotted nut a thotuud." Dryden dtnouDci - tlic " lajmenesa of ih ntots,1 "made up of some ridicnlouR, iooo licrcnt .story ;" declares (li.it Shakspeare "wriios m Mi;i'i pkei belowtht dullcst writors óf our, Oï of any preceding age;" tod aven tbal the reader " wili find in e eiy page either Mime loterám of pcceli or noroe notoriotu fl.-iw in eose. lr. llcipkins, a renowned New tënglaad preaoher. profeated tbal he enuid iinl ao attraotion in rither Milton or Shakspcare. Samuel l'epys aocouotod the play of Romeo and . J ii I 1 ilie ironl thal he ont lieard; Otheljoa "mran thiog;" and "A iiiiilsiimiiicr nigbl dream " the " tnosl inmpid, ridiouloua play that I erer -aw in ny life." Lsrd Sli.iit.sl.ury ipeaka of Sliakapeare'ü "rode, uopoluhod style and aotiqutAd phraae and wit." 1 . ¦.¦re 1 1. once mid : "I heat a Breal deal of Sliakspeare, Km I MOOOl read liim, lic is Mieli h Iniuiliastic felloW." Ilnine 1lc finen Shakspeare ai " t dUpro PM tioned and muahapeD gianl inoapaUe of fuminhiog :i proper enter taiomcDl to ¦ rofincd, or imellient aiidi enei'. " Voltaini prooouneod llamlei "- grom and barbarouM a picce iliat it would nol to undured by the vileal popnlation in Prance and Italy." QcOTRa III. remarkod : "Was tbere ever llioh -liill a Sliak-uare .' Only onc inut nut say w. Hut wliat tliink yu ? Wbat? I there r t sad stuft.' Vvbal .' wliat '!" Kvcn Hvron disparares tlio tiard of Avon, thinkshu playe "wil! have tlieirdecline," ranksl'opoabove liiiu, aml excluims tn his t'iiend 'l'nin Mooie, " Well, af'ter all. Tora, don't yon tliink Shakspeare was MMnethini of a buMbag?"